Legal Research

Great Courtroom Movies
Lawyer and Mark Cuban's brother, Brian Cuban, compiled a list of his top 10 "courtroom" movies--not just movies about the law and/or lawyers, but courtroom movies. I would have added 'My Cousin...

New List of Banned Movies, Television Shows
In the interest of transparency, the Real Transition Team is proud to announce the first 8 television shows and movies that will be banned from Ave Maria Town. Here's to a transition-filled summer!

Greatest Legal Movies
The Law Library recently added 50 new DVDs to its media collection.  The movies were chosen by the ABA Journal as the 25 greatest legal movies ever made.  Also included are movies that received honorable mentions...

Im Bad At Watching Movies
I’m bad at watching movies. Not “bad” in the way that Auburn is bad at football, of course, any moron can sit down in front of a TV and look at it, but rather I just don’t watch very many movies...

The 25 Greatest Legal Movies
If only we could all be Atticus Finch. No doubt, the 1962 film, "To Kill a Mockingbird," is the greatest movie ever made about law and lawyering. But what other movies merit mention as the greatest legal movies? In The...

How I Learned to Litigate at the Movies
Over the summer, the American Bar Association polled its members and then published in the ABA Journal a list of the twenty-five greatest legal movies of all time, and another twenty-five honorable mentions...

New Student Law Blog - With a Summer Twist
Summer students at Cassels Brock in Toronto are breaking new ground by writing a blog this summer. What a fantastic idea. It shows the everyday life of summer law students on Bay Street for those who have not yet embarked on law school...

Movie Rentals on iTunes
Canadians can now rent or purchase movies online from Apple’s iTunes. We can then watch the movies at home on our computers or on the go with our iPods. The Globe and Mail article “iTunes Canada Adds Movies” points out the challenges Canadians will face in adopting to this new technology for renting and buying [...

Apple iTunes to Offer Downloadable Movies in Canada
Apple has announced plans to offer downloadable movies in the Canadian market. The development points to the two big policy issues of the moment - first, will these downloaded movies face ISP throttling in light of the competition with ISP's own video-on-demand services? Second, why does Industry Minister Jim Prentice insist that a Canadian DMCA is needed to facilitate new business models in Canada when the market seems quite willing to do so without legislative intervention?

Best Law Movies
Greatest Legal Movies selected by ABA Journal